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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1950.

CAMPBELL'S 301 M.P.H. BLUEBIRD LIES RUSTING IN A JUNK YARD

By Basil Cardew

LONDON.

OU can glimpse her from a bus

YR

ambling down High-street, Wembley, She lies only 200 feet off the road, her 28 feet of body derelict and rusting. Ex- posed to all weathers in a car dealer's back- yard at No. 7, High-street.

Poor okl BLUEBIRD......the world's bravest motor-car. BLUEBIRD, which won for the late Bir MALCOLM CAMPBELL his knighthood..... BLUEBIRD, the first car in the world to travel at 300 miles an hour. ...BLUEBIRD, the ear that broke the world and speed record five times for Britain.

Now she's just a space-waster for a man who specialites. In American cars. Awaiting buyer. Anyone

have her-American, Dutchman, Chinese, No reasonable offer refused.

can

GRAND SEND-OFFS

Sentimental? Of course I an. I remember that buzzad September day in 1935 when the cables

with the news that she was the first car to travel

at five miles a minute,

1 remember her birth from a Brooklands shed in 1932. I remember the banquets and

Le

tions, the grand serul-offs and the decorated home- coming trains when Malcolm Campbell was Blue- bird's master.

Thirty-year-old JOHN WILLIAM SIMPSON, the ear dealer, led me to the dive-ton

picce.

museum

I climbed into Bluebird's weather-worn cock- Rizzed and cracked

pit, peered through the

simulatreen, ran my hands over the giant twin rear

wheels whose shredding tyres once fushed across the ones of Utah.

Juhn Stapron said:

all complet: and

"Sh

tip for rale,

including a couple of Sport tyres and the wooden tranput box."

He had hur for nearly

a year.

Ilo hought her in a part exchange deal, and paid £5 or £6-he can't quite e- member to have her trundled from Isleworth to Wembley.

Sir

SON'S OPTION

Malcolm'sen-2-year-

F

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His son saysı

can't afford

N

to buy her back”

£64,000 BLUEBIRD, first car to travel at 5 miles a minute, is now a space-waster up for sale to any buyer

1935 FLASHBACK: 200 m.p.h. loltering at Daytona

okt Donald Campbell-told me recently, how he parted with ins place for father's car.

"You know I am preparing to defend speci

record

nake room.

"EVER-SWORDED" OFF TO

JUNGLE

WAR IN MALAYA

By Peter Lovegrove

LONDON.

THE LONDONER'S DIARY!

RAILWAY FOOD CHARGES UP

Prices on British Railways restaurant cars have bean increased. The new rates come into force Juno 5.

Price

go up Gd. to breakfast,

for breakfast will he is. Ho is probably the 4s. for full richest man in England. When la father died in 1938. Sir 2s. 6d. for a John Inherited £10 millions, light one, lunch and dinner will both be 6s. Instead of

In the City he have Increased

4s, tea is unchanged at 1s. fortune. Yet he

л will be

6d., and there "short" tea for 18..

-Bul you will not get any

more for your money. Tha changes, say the Hotel's Execu-

ol

escape publicity recasions.

believed in

that vast

manages to

on countless

APPOINTED NOMINEE"

Sir John has other publish- Interests. In 1937 his tive, are independient of the Ing ending

the limitation of father bought # controlling restaurant meals. 'Sio there interest in Illustrated News- will be no extra courses on the papers, publishers of "glossy** periodicals, in co-operation with the late Lord Southwood, boss of Olhams..

trains.

NEW HOTEL

Southwood became chairman of Illustrated Newspapers. Ell- ertman's father appointed a nom- Ini, Sir William Cox, his cousin

and financial adviser, to be de-

puty chairman.

A new hotel in going up in London: the Tavistock. the corner of Woburn Place and Tavistock Square, In Bloomsbury. It will be run by Mr Howard Walduck, Who with his two sons own eight The following year the other Bloomsbury hotels.

present Sir John inherited the Utle and with it his father's Walduck estimates the bußd.

illustrated News- £100,000, with more in

papera. The new baronet was £250,000 for equip 28, detested publicity. Lord Southwood helped tim ไอ nvold it, good or bad.

Ing cost

t± : another ment. All the 77 bearcoms wil have private bathrooms. The Walducks hope to have the hotel ready to open next spring.

ATLANTIC DEFENCE

20-

HUSH, HUSH

PALACE EYESORE GOES

At 40, Sir John is still n shy man, still shuns publicity. Re- Two names arn being can cently he flew to London from -

the vassed for

job of

Paris. It was a sudden decision. ordinating the North Atlantic Mr Aubrey Lloyd chairman of Pact Defence Organization: the Ellerman Lines, had died. United States Generals Eisen- A usunt, the trip was hush-

bush. hower and Marshall.

·But there is no prospect of He Eisenhower taking the job. The 1st Battalion, the Worcestershire Regiment, whose most

fuse any The hideous corrugated Iron treasured battle-honour was carned in the famous naval engagement of would cessarily

post int stood in the way of barrier which has protected for the Presi- the garden wall on Constitu- the most historic Parkins •pace? A week or 1794, are this year celebrating the "Glorious First of June" on the high nomination

of the United States. ton H of Buckingham Palace British car is in a museum." two auth Mr Simpson bought a

seas--and heading for trouble once more. They are on their way to deney

There is no doubt he was dis- Gardens is to be removed in the Yer must of the year Mr had of secondhand batteries,

Malaya to join the British forces fighting the Communist terrorists.

appointed when he did not get next few days, my father" water Simpson has hud Bluebirds They had priority in his yard, 18-year-old tar So Bluebird-the

the Republican nomination last of 141.71 miles has been covered with a

few World War Two, they were

A bomb which fell in Green lying in the car that cost £64,000 to build Just before they sailed} bestested garrison, only a

In the Eritrean and Abyssinian time. This time he is not likely an hour against the Americans paulins, always

Park destroyed about 70 yards Americans have was moved out into the front to from Liverpool in the troop-miles away.

to be disappointed. yond. Several

East and the campaigns before being swil-

of the and Canadi:ung.

The Journey

famous chevul do frise tram mission been to see her.

ship Empire Pritic. I saw conditions

which the ched to the unvier

Western Desert | alt the

There is, of course, no man which was put up about 40 desperate fighting in the United States who would years ago to prevent militant them being "kitted up" for Worcesters will be fighting will After some

that refuse the Presidency, unless suffragettes from climbing into their new theatre of opera-be nothing new to their Com-round Knightsbridge in

11 of 1942, they he had some vital underlying the grounds of the Pulace. tions at the Dale, Chester, f. Gillmore, ODE, who was withdrew Into Tobruk.

mending Officer, Lieut-Colonel fateful summer

fins taken five years to remake When reason for dollg 50, which has been their home a Chindit in Burma under the the Cyrenalcan

The metal work. port fell, only since they returned from Inte General Wingate and a few remnants evaded cat BAOR in March.

held the famous roadrall blockture and ranched Cairo after

for long and hazardous Journey There has been a great com- of "White City" at Henu

As u hobby ballet student Lea months 1914, after through the enemy knes,

In int and going of personnel two

Bartfeld, of West Kensington. since then. Many men had com- particularly, savage fighting.

10 joln the 11th pressure

makes carrings out of fossils. Her Then, Col Gillmore was one in wire sent to the United picted their term of overseas

latest include curled chicli fos- been of those who lived precariously Battalion, which was re-formed that it is his duty to do so.

sils found on the Dorset coast, He proved he can handle the Lervice, and others have Mr Simpson and me: "I don't fastest car in racist today. In led by National Service dark.

demobbed.

Their ranks have in the jungle and struck in the as the First, As part of 214 of Utah. The cont of the

When he reaches Brigade of the 43rd (Wessex) the de-been whole thing would be beyond think Bluebird should leave this doing so he silenced

will be re- Divison, they took a

Miss Bartfeld is in her mid- cintry. But there you are, 1 feailst talk of inviting a foreign mea, who have undergone their Malaya, the roles

previous ex- in the Normandy andversid, and his

WINSTON

CHUR- twenties.

She trained as "It is tragic that poor old in a business man, opd she has

ace to help Raymond Mays and basic training at Lichtleid

CHILL'S daughter Sarah has ar silversmith, a lot of parking Peter Walker

herself taught. with

the frst rived about 50 percent Bluebird should He rustink in been given

reprezent

in the With him be invaluablo,

too tu Seine. and were the

in Hollywood to litre joint effort car.

the unit's strength, and

make Jewellery designing, three years Of course, the right space for long enough." yard.

is Major P. C. Vaughan DSO, com

across the her first American Alm. She ngo came to London from Pales- complete battalion The B. R. M. should prove to drafts

regulars from

prospect ot three line to study dancing. be more rapla

than the new Cheshire, Warwickshire, South who was a company comman river. Then followed the dash likes the

same brigad: in across Belgihm und Eindhoven months there. Alfa Romeo, the new Ferrari and North Stails Regiments, der in the

and Nijmegen. stern fighting

"Well, parts I wontert for Bluebird 11. They have examined the 2,500

No reasonable oĝer refused. were in Bluebird T. and thus, h.p. 12-cylinder Rolls-Roye uero Mr engine which, in Huebird's buy- I found, had been sold to

'THIRD MAN' Sumpson about nine Frontha

drank 2.9 galion, a minute day.

What price Reginald Furnell from R before my father died.

40-gallon tank. They ave noted her 6h. His. width, to be the third man to drive moored far Bft. Bins, wheel, the B. R. M. team after his base and her 4gins ground brilliant show in the European clearance. And they have dis- Grand Prix? He finished third, cused the cost of carrying her averaging 90 miles an hour, and *1 have an optim to buy the way to the Cnited States-usa could have gone faster. car back-the body has bestow-piece.

verely attacked by the sal

"After njollation, I had to part with Bluebird the ar exchange for

ITIC.

1

Bluebird

11

the

KING-SIZED

HEAD...

15-ton stone head THIS mammoth reproduction of a is being displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The original is believed to have been carved at the beginning of the Christian era by an ancient people in southern Mexico. Dr Matthew W. Stirling (left) discovered this largest carved stone in the New World. (Acme)

K.

CANNON

WOULD IT BE NIGHT,SIN,ASITCHELL,

TO SAY THAT YOU KNEW CARESSI,

WELL ENOUGH TO LIND HER

| SAY – A PISTOL?.

1

or the near teething period

1

our

new

SUMMER TIPS

of

of

by

the

Kingdom

As for General Marsholl, he has reached a

considerablo He is in his maturity in age. 70th year. He is unlikely to job, except under argument of strong ke the

JEWELS FROM FOSSILS

| parience of guerla tactics winkpearheaded the b A

CHURCHILL TERRIFIED' which she conts with silver..

Burma.

"NAVAL CONNECTION

the their

MR

us Gailenkirchen and on the **But -the Rhine, and the nad sweep to abundant and Bremen.

me. 1 really Entent, which and is getting time."

INDIAN ATTACKS

IF YOU are car ready motering, listen to the services on arrival at Singapore part in the battle they were America, and was attacked by managers of the Big Six car they will be put through their awarded the Naval Crown, In

A

Each plece of her Jewellery food, though is crented

to suit a particular. varied, terrifies face, personally or costume. prefer tood In As she is on a student's visa, Is tasty now she is forbidden to earn money beiter all the or conduct a business. Many

things she gives to friends,

Miss Churchill

Jins renled home st Santo

THE MARCH OF TIME

A schoolmaster set his boya a test in which one of the ques-

10 Long asked them explain "'eluckwork.".

returned Maserati, when its Sone of the... latter

is over, Yes, from the Middle East only there is a new Ferrari and

Kot The Worcesters ure very month ago, and had just now Maserati for Grand Prix through their hume leave when proud of their naval con- racing. You will hear about they were posted to the wait. nection. Four hundred men of them later in the season.

Consequently it has not on the Regiment-then the 20th

The Worcesters' "Ever possible to give them much of Fool-were serving as marirles

nicknmne, inherited specialized training before leav in Admiral Lord Howe's Ware Bworded"

of Foot, date Le aut There will ing the U.K.

ship when they engaged the from the 29th

Feet

just getting your lectures on the long sea voyage French

lk

bdek to 1746, The Regiment Ben Lyon's

stationed in North Blanica. was then for summer on what they will have to face, English Channel, and for

WHO OWNS ODHAMS? Red Indians while the officers at Mess. The attacks memory of that great occasion, werd

beaten off, the Worcesters

Who benefits by the increase Band tradition were successfully

Odhams

Five of the boys wrote that which "Hearts of

dividenti Oak but to guard against a similar in ally playe

by electricity in tule uni

Britannin"

allock, the atter surprise

have officers Press

declared? clocks work just

and the same way as irons, vacuum I spoke to a number of men

part-owners own regimintal nurch, begon to wear their swords ni Odhan, as they were being issued with their

This

his practice was con- printers of the Socialist Daily cleaners and television. their "oRve-green"

"Royal Windsor," and be-ness. tropical the

One of the five added c'ething and the new Mark V hre God Save the King, at all tinued even after the Regiment Herald, have raised their divi-

had left the American con dend from 1714 percent to 20 for no apparent reason, the name rifles with the short barrel and monial functions.

They have most distintinent, but was efluxed about

"clockwork" had been given to quished record of service. They a century ago, when only the

the driving mechanism of child- at Ramilles fought

and at Captain of the Week and the

ren's toys In the Sikh Ware Orderly Officer were required to Albuhera and at Neuve Chapelle.

makers.

Today's

1

DRAIN engine od, flush with Huching oil. real with summer grade.

DRAIN anti-freeze and sedi- and

reall,

nent from radiator

faces ut the school.

special

USING CARBINES

battle

Bash eliminator. They will also be using new WHEN the engine is hot lonkines. The

American car- Service National for water kaks from the fnds, most of

whom have had radiator, hoses, water joints, and about six months' service 11. cylinder black,

the

Army, were thrilled at the

CLEAN radiator of Insects Pros

and mud, and check fan belt tension.

-(London Express Service)

men

of tur Brst trip

but it Was "jur!

Job to long serviva like

Corporals Ernest Bridge and Harry Newton,

Briage, a 51-year-old native af Birmingham, cently com

BBC COLONIAL pleleri 30 years in the Army.

and during that time has been in England only 10 months.

BROADCASTS Battersea-born Newlon is only

30 years old, but he has spent

ཀ

Mr Oliver Whitley has take 25 of them in the ranks. Ha

up duty as Assistant Head of the was in the Royal West Kents BBC's Colonint Scrvice1. His in the Mictde

rended

only

when

just

the Dodo. He had five

serving in the

the late

war.

East in Word War Two,

and Williams, chief is Mr Grenfel

cupture who has toured the Cotonles ex-

Germons atta

attacked tensively in recent years.

Joining the BBC statt in 1935, canese Islands. after graduating in history and other brothers

Army during law at Oxford University, Mr

twist of fate a' queer by Whitky served with the Royal and

是 them became paraTM Navy during the war. On demo two bilisation in 1946, he was se troopers and were penned

DBC conded from the

while he was to the Arnhem Colonial Office,

the forces at Nijmegen which hard to A native

desperately of Yorkshire, Mr tried so Whitley is 38 years of age. Aght thele way through to the

in

with

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANGE

A PISTOL? WHY SUNG

1 DID LEND HER ONE.

SHE WAS SCARED

OF SUNGLASS

D'AZUR HAS GONE

A BIT CHICAGO

LATELY, Y’KHOW

HERE'S ANOTHER JUST *LIKE THE ONE SHE BORROWED..NOT SAVING I'M SCARED

BUT GUNS ARE HANDY-ARENT THEY, MA. CANNON?),

In

maintain the tradition.

REFUELLING

percent.

Largest single payment Koca to Sir Join Ellerman aud what art

interesting character

DURING

MANOEUVRES

That

London Express Service)

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